Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-16


grim old moral eharncl house.
Ever since its erection the execution
of criminals has taken place there. Pre-
yious 30 this al executions tool, place az
point rot FIR from Cooper Institute,
On the cast side. \ prominent snip
ming merchant now living saw an exc
clr.ion there in 1923. Such an event
WIS then 80 rare that the free and sasy
populace regarded it as something
having even greater attractions than
country lair. There were high hillsm
the neighborhood then which have since
been iovclcd IN the phenomena
Growth Of The city, and from these, ms
The executions took place iuthe open ar,
there was every opportunity to witness
the fearful spectacle This inirequcncy
Of executions. however, belongs to a
former period of New York. Within
the last few years there have been as
many rs four murdereTs in the Tonbs
mt once under sentence Of death. The
public, from the day that IT was finished,
about 1910, has always called 1t the
Tomhs. although its official designation
is the City Prison. One Of the most
curious events in its history is The in
stallation as warden of that human
poony Of the Sixth ward, Mr.. Fatty
Walsh.
SOME QUEER OCCUPATIONS.
New York has not attained the unique
distinction recently boosted by Paris of
maintaining beggar factory for MAIN
ING little children. 80 as 10 render them
objects of pity. Neither has it yet
reached up to London III the possession
Of necessary stores" wherein every
earthly thing in use by man is kept on
sale. But, after all, New York IS big
enough to supply many ingenious per
sons with very curious occupations. The
scheme of our "Clean-Iowel Com
pany," newly started for supplying
business offices with clean towels and
soap, we ought not to boast OF,
since we borrowed their motion
from Chicago. We are alone, how
ever, in patiently permitting an auda-
cious TeutOn near Chatham Square to
keep hand-organs in mischief by re-
pairing them. He assumes to replenish
them with new tunes, but of course that
is a fiction, for no hand-organ was ever
heard to play any but bald-headed and
middlc-agod music. New York main
tains also Mt least one establislment.for
iitting little children for the stage and
the ballet. The accomplished woman
in charge of this used, whether she still
does or not, to certify to the beauty Of
the understandings 50 TO speak, OF
females who applied for chance to cX-
lnbit themselves in theatres where spec
tacular pieces were to be presented.
Two courageous New Workers follow
the useful but unpoetic business Of
hanging their fcllow-cit.Zens They
are not prejudiccd in favor Of New
lorkers, hut are easily persuaded to
hang men elsewhere throughout the
Union. 1t is always pretended that no
enc knows their names, and that only
the sheriff OF this county has their adj
dresses. One is dubbed "lsaacs " and
the other is called " Minzesheimer !;
Int the city always humps them both
under the one name OF Joseph .. At
Einson, and under that name. they draw
their pay. They rig the gailows and
finally cut the rope. One other sun
culinary citizen in Twcnty-third street
swings a sbingle declaring him 70 be
"Ihe Destroyer Of Moths.
DoG-DoCToRs.
-Four prosperous citizens earn their
livelihoods rs doctors for the lap-do5s
of rich women. As a rule the only
medicine they use is starvation. They
fling the dear pets into barred boxes
and deprive them of food for four days,
having found out that the usual trouble
with pct dogs is that they are fed eX-
trava9antly and improperly. Just east
Of the Bowcry, il q tenement-house,
resides a man whose business it Is to
rent himself and his Punch-and-Judy
show to children's parties in the brown
stone wards. A person on the Bowcry
keeps six or eight girls busy framing
wreaths and pictures of tombstones,
whereon are set forth the virtues OF de-
ceased New Workers. He follows where
the death notices in the papers lead
him, and works upon the feelings Of the
grief-stricken families.
4 rich Italian employs horde of his
couutrymen to trim or balance the
loads upon the scOws OF our street
sweeping department. These trimm%s
save for him all the rags, fat, bone,
metal, and other convertible refuse
flung into the householdcrs' ash-bar-
rels. Another man is making for
tune by carrying off all the waste and
refuse the CITY viii not. remove, such
as builders leavings, dirt from cellar
diggings. and so ON. The builders pay
him to take it, and hen he sells it in
the suburbs for filling in sunken lands.
Only one man in town pretends to
keep photographs of all the notable
persons in the world. There is not
room for two in the business. Another
citizen sells to public men and corpora
tons clippings from all the newspapers
that mention them at five cents "a clip
ping added to II subscription fee each
wear. Yet another citizen hunts up
coats-of-arms and pedigrees for all
who think theirs have been overlooked,
or that they may get them from families
of the same, or nearly the same, names
as their own. This is quite English,
and therefore popular. 1t Is sad that
the carIiage-makers are giving away
coats-Of-arms like chromOs. Lawyer
Ed. Price, the ex-pugilist, has mo-
nopoly as the attorney for the Chinese.
The laundrymen all seek him when in
trouble, and always pay him in silver
dollars The trade in painting black
eyes with a mixture of six parts white
paint and one part red now boasts seve-
raj establishments. 1t is not popa
larizing the black eye, because it only
covers up the scandal without removing
recollection OF the accompanying
clicking"
One New Yorker has posted himself
about all the unclaimed estates i'll chris
tendon and thus profits by weakness
more general than most folks imagine.
Another New Yorker searches the
streets at night with lantern for coins
and purses dropped during the eve
ming, A woman near the City Hall
takes care of the babies whose widowed
mothers have to go out TO work, and
who check them, like umbrellas, III the
morning and call for them in the eve
ming Many womenin the east side tene-
ments take care of baby or two for
their neighbors, but this downtown
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